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Liquid Pedagogy
(2021-05-20)
Liquid Pedagogy is a critical reflection on pedagogy and the discipline of architecture which historically is shaped by but also has shaped the learning spaces in architecture schools. The thesis is materialized in a design ...
THOSE PREGNANT IMAGES I WOULD LIKE TO BRING BACK TO CHINA
(2021-02-09)
Since modernity, the term “atlas” has garnered a meaning beyond an accumulation of maps, referring also to the practice of collecting images. Aby Warburg collected 971 images in his Bilderatlas Mnemosyne to create a model ...
Throwing Shade: Heatwaves, Emergency Preparedness, and Produced Risk
(2021-05-21)
Throwing Shade introduces a series of public cooling landscapes designed to offer relief both daily and in emergencies. Through considering networks of infrastructure and public acupuncture, the design proposes heat escapes ...
Exploitive By Design: Warning Signs From the Northwest Amazon
(2021-05-19)
This body of work concerns the impact of imposed capital and culture in the 19th and early 20th centuries’ “Rubber Boom” and today’s 21st-century tourism industry in Iquitos, Peru, because there are parallels in the effects ...
Unpaving Paradise : Envisioning a Healthy Hialeah
(2021-05-18)
Hialeah is a city of “unhealthy” urban character in terms of green coverage, economic opportunity, and medical care; however, its strong sense of community and interpersonal “weak ties” could help overcome these characteristics ...
Dear GSD
(2021-05-18)
My motivation for writing this thesis is my passion for using front-end design techniques to construct social justice in the digital domain and find solutions for particular design problems.
This thesis proposes a digital ...
Form Transition: Decarbonization Beyond Settler Modernity
(2021-06-30)
Recent discourse about climate change and the spotlight it has put on global energy systems have raised calls for new relationships to energy under a variety of open-ended terms: decarbonization, energy transition, green ...
Ovis Versatilis: Icelandic Sheep Farm as Land Art Museum as Evolution Lab
(2021-05-19)
This thesis explores the role of evolutionary biology in landscape architecture, examining designed landscapes as potential drivers for species evolution. It argues that any landscape design makes direct and immediate ...
Synthetic Ecologies: Design and the Ecological Imagination
(2021-02-16)
The present historical condition has been characterized by the impasse between two seemingly opposing narratives, one of modernization, mastery, and progress (usually associated to economic growth), and another of ...
Hybrid Soluble and Insoluble 3D Printed Formwork
(2021-05-18)
This thesis investigates the potentials of hybrid 3D printed concrete formwork. Water-soluble Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) formwork allows for the creation of intricate forms that would be difficult, if not impossible, to create ...